first trying to justify why he went after alison parker and adam ward and posted video he filmed while killing him. what he didn't know is the phone he was using to post the images is how authorities were closing in. his car was spotted here, 180 miles from the airport. >> shortly before 11:30 a.m. this morning, virginia police trooper was on patrol along 66. her license plate reader alerted her to a license plate on a chevrolet sonic traveling east on 66. the driver of the sonic refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. it was only a minute or two later when the sonic ran off the road in to the median. >> as the trooper approaches the car she discovers the driver shot himself but is still alive. the manhunt is over. >> the suspect was later flown to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and died, pronounced dead at 1:26